Social discomfort is so universal that social psychologists like me have made careers out of studying it. We can find it almost anywhere, like in salary negotiations or small talk conversations that ...

Being nice isn’t the problem. Lazy leadership is. I doubt many employees would say the biggest problem with their leaders is that they’re too nice. Yet that’s the premise of a recent Harvard Business ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simone E. Morris reports on inclusive leadership for the workplace. Morris: Tell us about your upcoming book, The Price of Nice: ...

I doubt many employees would say the biggest problem with their leaders is that they’re too nice. Yet that’s the premise of a recent Harvard Business Review piece. It argues that “nice” leaders can ...